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Re: ESPN top 500

BTW, it boggles my mind that Tyler was like 25 spots higher than Gerald Green.

25 spots isn't a lot at this level of the rankings. And anyway, Green had a great season while Hans had a terrible one last year. Take away that one year though, and who wouldn't rank Hans higher than Green?

Always possible Or that we're not interpreting them correctly. It's a perception issue really. Green hasn't been in the league in a while, Hans was a starter not long ago. It will take a while for opinions to catch up.

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Luckily for us this isn't based in reality. In his days of quickness Barbosa was a speed demon killer but we saw last year that he was an aging, good in certain spots type of player and nowhere near the athlete of Green.

Sully is going to really disappoint a lot of fans, and Redd being anywhere near Green at this point makes no sense.

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All this really does is tell me that not many ESPN guys outside of Rusillo actually watch the games and players the get paid to discuss. Whatever you think of Hollinger at least he bases his opinion on something tangible and if you follow him on Twitter it's clear he watches a lot of hoops, and if you listen to Rusillo's podcasts he clearly knows the league. Those two and Legler are really the only ESPN guys (that aren't in game commentators) that I'll listen to. It's kind of a shame really, these dudes get paid well to watch the NBA and talk about it. That's their freakin job.

100% agree on all counts.

It's sad that Kiper can know thousands of recent and current prospects in pretty good detail and a lot of NBA commentators/talking heads can't keep up with 400-500.

I love when a guy will do pre-game color or something and mention the skill set of a particular Pacer and basically have it completely opposite of reality. I don't mean in the "he's better than that" homer anger, I mean in the "well actually he can't do anything you said he can and lives off of all the stuff you say he doesn't do". Embarrassing.

If it wasn't for Rusillo I'd have no faith in ESPN at all anymore. I even noticed that Simmons is falling off after he did all that work for the basketball book. He's slowly drifting out of touch with everything other than the elite teams/players.

Re: ESPN top 500

Seriously how is Anthony Davis #62? He hasn't played in the NBA yet..... ESPN is tuuuurrrrriibbble!!!

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Re: ESPN top 500

Common Sense says West will be improved overall this year, he's healthy afterall. He was a beast in April, and was one of our better players in the playoffs. Sans Danny all of our starters should be improved for one reason or another. George because of youth, Hill due to full time starter position, Hibbert because of youth/ work ethic/ a fixed offense, West due to health.

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I THINK he meant that he deserved to be ranked lower, which would mean he is better than the 56th best player in the NBA. In which I would agree, but at the same time, it's nearly IMPOSSIBLE to argue moving 4-5 spots....like you said.

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Ryan Anderson is #50? Puh-Lease! He's a lesser version of when Rashard Lewis received that surreal contract.

I don't think Ryan Anderson is even a top 100 player. We will see him drop like a rock in water after this year.

"Your course, your path, is not going to be like mine," West says. "Everybody is not called to be a multimillionaire. Everybody's not called to be the president. Whatever your best work is, you do it. Do it well. … You cease your own greatness when you aspire to be someone else."